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The following is a list of of famous polymaths, or individuals noted for excelling in multiple fields or disciplines.
Ancient
Renaissance
- Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa, magician, theologian, soldier, legal expert, astrologist, alchemist and writer
- Leone Battista Alberti, painter, poet, philosopher, cryptographer, musician and architect
- Sir Thomas Browne, physician, philosopher, literature, medicine, religion, science
- Albrecht Dürer, painter, geometry, fortification
- Athanasius Kircher, egyptology, geology, and music theory
- Leonardo da Vinci, engineer, physician, artist, juggler, musician and composer
- William Petty, scientist and philosopher
- Thomas More
- Desiderius Erasmus
- Theodor Zwinger doctor, ethicist, linguist
Classical
- Alexander Borodin, composer and chemist
- Sir George Cayley, naturalist, physical scientist, engineer, inventor and politician
- Liu E, writer, musician, physician and entrepreneur
- Benjamin Franklin, politician, physicist, inventor and writer.
- Karl Friedrich Gauss, mathematician, astronomer and physicist
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, writer, philosopher, scientist
- Robert Hooke, experimental scientist, natural philosopher, biologist, physiscist, architect, inventor
- Christiaan Huygens, natural philiosopher, horologist, astronomer, mathematician, inventor
- Thomas Jefferson, politician, architect, archaeologist and writer.
- Gottfried Leibniz, lawyer, mathematician, philosopher
- Mikhail Lomonosov, literature, education, and science
- John Stuart Mill, philosopher, political writer, economist
- Isaac Newton, mathematician, physicist, alchemist, theologian, economist
- Henri Poincaré, mathematician, physicist
- Adam Smith
- Nikola Tesla, electrical engineer, mechanical engineer and physicist
- Giambattista Vico
- Christopher Wren, architect, astronomer and mathematician
- Samuel Morse, artist, politician, inventor, educator
- Blaise Pascal, mathematician, physicist, theologian, philosopher
Modern
- Gregory Bateson, anthropologist, social scientist, linguist and cyberneticist
- Kenneth E. Boulding, economist, educator, poet, religious mystic, systems scientist, and interdisciplinary philosopher
- Jacob Bronowski, physicist, biologist, writer
- William F. Buckley Jr., novelist, journalist, pianist, secret agent
- Noam Chomsky, linguist, psychologist, political writer
- Moshe Feldenkrais, engineer, physicist, Judo blackbelt, creator of the Feldenkrais Method
- Buckminster Fuller, designer, metal-tradesman, mathematician, professor, theoretician
- Jonathan Miller, opera director, physician, writer
- Herbert Simon, cognitive psychologist, computer scientist, economist and philosopher
- Michael Polanyi, physical chemist, philosopher, theologian, economist
- Walter Pitts, cognitive scientist, mathematical-logician, philosopher
- Kukrit Pramoj, author, economist, historian, novelist, philosopher, statesman
- Anatol Rapoport, mathematician, psychologist, pianist, general systems theorist
- Jose Rizal, Filipino renaissance man
- Bertrand Russell, mathematician, philosopher, writer, political activist
- Gore Vidal, author, actor, historian, playwright, political commentator
- Maya Angelou, author, poet, actress, playwright, educator
- Roger Penrose, mathematician, cosmologist, philosopher
- Paul Robeson, athlete, actor, political activist, attorney
- John Von Neumann, mathematician, physicist, chemist, economist, computer scientist
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